I have successfully implemented a Folder Redirection group policy for a specific user group in our organization; however, the folders are not being redirected as expected. My goal is to implement the redirection such that a users 'Documents' folder will appear in the location \\storagebox\users$\%username%\Documents
. I also have set the users home folder to \\storagebox\users$\%username%
.
This is working for all other redirected folders except the Documents folder itself. For example: The 'Pictures' folder is found at \\storagebox\users$\%username%\Pictures
. For some reason, however, the %username%
container folder itself has been converted into the 'Documents' folder, while also housing the other folders.
If a user opens their 'Documents' folder, they are transported to their 'Home' folder, and the folder structure is as follows:
Users/
| User.One/
| | Desktop/
| | Downloads/
| | Music/
| | Pictures/
| | Videos/
| | File1.txt
| | File2.txt
| | . . .
| User.Two/
| . . .
I have tried:
- Setting 'Redirect to the following location' to
\\storagebox\users$\%username%\Documents
. - The option to "Redirect to the user's home directory."
- Setting 'Create a folder for each user under the root path' to
\\storagebox\users$
- Even the example text for this identifies the destination for the 'Documents' folder as
\\storagebox\users$\Claire\Documents
- Even the example text for this identifies the destination for the 'Documents' folder as
I have also made sure that the group policy is successfully updated after every attempted adjustment.
In the end I would like the tree structure of the 'Home' folder and the redirected user folders to be as follows:
Users/
| User.One/
| | Desktop/
| | Documents/
| | | File1.txt
| | | File2.txt
| | | . . .
| | Downloads/
| | Music/
| | Pictures/
| | Videos/
| User.Two/
| . . .
The only folder not following the wanted pattern is the users 'Documents' folder and I can't seem to figure out why. How can I get the desired implementation to work?